Charleston part 1 the aquarium

The first item on the agenda for Charleston was a trip to Fort Sumter. We got to the ticket booth with over and hour before we needed to board the boat, so we visited the South Carolina Aquarium next door. The aquarium does a nice job of displaying the various habitats in the state. They start you in the mountains at the west end of the state then though the "piedmont" (foothills) into the coastal plain and finally into the ocean. They also had a new area of exotic critters from the Amazon. I walked out of there with a much better understanding of the ecosystems of the Carolinas.